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newsbriefs Bob Proctor Brings the Law of Attraction to NYC

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ost of us have experienced a time when our mood and thoughts were influencing our day-to-day events for the better . . . and sometimes for worse. Sometimes after a successive string of negative events, we can actually recall a prior negative thought process precipitating those events. Likewise, there are times when we can easily attribute positive results to our prior intellectual and emotional states. This is the effect of Bob Proctor what is commonly known as the law of attraction.

This fall, the Modern Day Millionaire is bringing in a founding father of the law of attraction movement—The Secret’s Bob Proctor will be live at Carnegie Hall on November 14 and 15. “Proctor is the last of the founding fathers of the personal development field, and one of the greatest teachers in human potential and development,” says Kelly Martinsen, publisher of Natural Awakenings Long Island. “The foremost teacher of Andrew Carnegie’s ‘Gospel of Wealth’ article, Proctor says he finds it fitting that he will be hosting a historic event at the legendary Carnegie Hall.”

“Somehow I haven’t been to New York City to a public event in around three decades!” Proctor exclaims with a smile. “It is time we go back.” This two-day event, which promises to be the most influential experience in the field of self-development, opens with a VIP gathering featuring numerous guest speakers, along with presenter Proctor, and will close with a lifetime tribute to Proctor. Day two will consist of a morning session with the Council of Wisdom, including cast members from The Secret; an afternoon of star-studded breakout sessions; and will conclude with an evening celebration As If party.

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Self-Love Workshop at Quest Bookshop

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nconditional love coach” Judith Costa will present Fall in Love … With Yourself from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., October 29, at Quest Bookshop, 240 East 53rd Street. Costa says the workshop will focus on “the most important relationship you will ever have in your life: your relationship with yourself.”

Participants will learn what self-love is; how to know, understand and accept themselves; why they must love themselves before they can love others; how to face their inner critics and be their own best friends; and how to use tools and techniques to love themselves no matter what.

A speaker, writer and seminar leader with master’s degrees in psychology and psychotherapy, Costa lives in the United States and organizes workshops and retreats around the world. Using various techniques including coaching, past-life regression, the Akashic Records, astrology and dream interpretation, she works with groups and individuals, both online and in person, to help them to overcome their inner blocks to love and know themselves better. “My work involves teachings about what true love is, how to improve your self-love, and how to manifest the relationship you want and deserve,” she says.

For more information, contact Judith Costa at 646-204-4535 or JudithMCosta@hotmail.com, or visit JudithMCosta.com.

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Ahimsa Yoga and Music Festival

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ake yoga classes from world class teachers, listen to great sacred music and shop for unique and inspiring merchandise. Now in its fourth year, The Ahimsa Yoga & Music Festival, held from November 4 through 6, has a dynamic new locale at Hunter Mountain ski resort, in the Catskill mountains.

The festival has expanded its programming of yoga, meditation and sacred music to a full weekend this year. The festival—a collaboration with Radio Woodstock Live Events (a division of Radio Woodstock, in Woodstock, New York) offers inclusive packages for onsite lodging, locally sourced gourmet meals, music, yoga classes and workshops for all levels.

With 70 curated workshops and classes taught by more than 40 experienced and popular teachers, headline teachers include Faith Hunter, Alanna Kaivalya, Charles Matkin, Sara DiVello and Mary Dana Abbott; kirtan and sacred music recording artists Jai Uttal, Donna De Lory, Gaura Vani, will be featured throughout the weekend, as well. Ahimsa’s real spirit is in incorporating as much live music to each workshop and class as possible.

From spacious studio, one, two, and three-bedroom suites to sumptuous executive and penthouse suites, accommodations offer these great amenities: full kitchen, fireplace, daily housekeeping, concierge services, valet parking and bell service. Ahimsa also features 10 different music performances and the enormously popular Vendor Village, where participants may learn and shop for new yoga and health-related products and services.

Weekend, one-day and music only passes are available. For registration and the full teacher and music line-up, visit AhimsaYogaFestival.com.

“Heal the Healer” Program at Eastover

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hen winter drives us indoors, we have a perfect excuse to take time off for healing—and that’s vital for those of us in the healing business, says Yingxing Wang, founder of Eastover, a holistic living and retreat center in the Berkshires.

“Winter is a great time for the healers themselves to come to Eastover to relax and recharge, especially because our rates are so cheap then,” she says. “It’s a great season to rest and recharge, particularly for yoga teachers and healers who burn out by serving others. At Eastover, they’re pampered, and the all-inclusive services are deeply discounted to meet their budget needs.”

From November to March, Eastover offers a weekly winter Relax and Rejuvenate program for healers and teachers. It features expert-led meditation, tai chi, qigong and yoga, including specialized classes; “Life Reimagined,” a meditation and discussion focusing on purpose, truth, self-compassion, acceptance, vulnerability, responsibility, focus and positive energy; healing art treatments; and guided kayaking on the Housatonic River along Eastover’s 600-acre forest ($50 kayak rental).

Among the special programs are Chinese Calligraphy & Brush Ink Grinding as Meditation; Cooking and Food as Medicine; 5 Element Movement with Monica Nolan; Learning Chinese for Alzheimer’s Prevention; Healing through Singing Bowls with Priscilla Gale; Mindfulness Meditation with Dr. Andrew Vidich; and Eco-Machine: Water Reclamation with Natural Enzymes and Tropical Plants.

For an extra $99, participants can have their qi (lifeforce energy) activated with Wushi Jianje Jiange, grand master of qigong and tai chi.

The cost to share a double-occupancy deluxe room, with all meals and activities included, is $282 plus tax for two weekdays or $320 plus tax for two weekend days.

Eastover is located in Lenox, MA, minutes from Tanglewood Music Center and Kriplau Yoga Center. It hosts organized retreats as well as individual visitors. For more information, visit Eastover.com/restoration-renewal.html.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ~Dalai Lama

NEWLIFE Expo Returns to NYC Oct 21-23

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EWLIFE Expo, the largest holistic expo on the East Coast, will be back in NYC on October 21-23 at the Hotel Pennsylvania (33rd St. and 7th Ave). This year’s event will feature more than 100 exhibitors and speakers with expertise in subjects like alternative medicine, metaphysics, spirituality, network marketing and cutting-edge environmental products.

In addition to traditional favorites Nutrition, Strange Universe and Vibrational Medicine, this year’s panel discussions will include a new theme, UFOs. Richard Dolan, an author and television personality, is a longtime advocate for government disclosure on the subject. Among the returning speakers will be Gail Thackray, Chris Macklin, Sifu Matthew, Jill Dahne, Tammy Adams, Dr. Robert Sorge and Dr. Jane Goldberg.

“Visitors can come to our natural food dining area to soothe their palates, and come to our massage area where they can bliss out for only a dollar a minute,” says Mark Becker, the expo’s founder and producer. “By taking a weekend out of their lives, they can change their lives forever and meet thousands of people like themselves.”

For full schedule information or to preregister for discounts, visit NewLifeExpo.com.

Prosperity Center Program Helps Recharge Lives

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he Center of Prosperity, which focuses on alternative psychology and energy healing, is offering a new program, Time to Change, for individuals who want to recharge their lives.

“If you ever have the feeling that you get stuck, this program is for you,” says Tania ChuTania Chumak mak, the center’s founder. “A significant part of our lives is made up of habitual actions; we feel comfortable with the minimum number of innovations and are afraid to get out of our comfort zone. Because of that fear, it is very convenient for us to promise ourselves, I’ll do it next time—I’ll definitely get out of my chair, or my bed, and create my beautiful life.”

Participants in the program can expect to achieve several life-changing results, Chamuk says: they’ll restore layers of unconscious thought; experience new energy; work past old belief systems and traumas; stop negative feelings to attract positivity; and open the right doors while closing the wrong ones.

Chumak, a reiki master and practical psychologist and the creator of individual positive energy focused therapy, says the Center of Prosperity offers practical psychological and spiritual guidance to help people overcome negativity and illness: “We’ve developed programs that help people fulfill their dream, find a soul mate, achieve their true weight, and balance and harmonize all aspects of their lives.”

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Helping Our Children Feel Their Feelings

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any parents consider IQ to be a predictor of a child’s success. But another critical factor is a child’s EQ, or emotional quotient—the ability to unHarriet Cabelly derstand and deal with difficult feelings.

That’s the focus of Harriet Cabelly’s new fall workshop series for parents, How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, which she will offer on the Upper West Side.

Cabelly, a licensed clinical social worker, says children need to learn the language of emotions and develop the ability to express and manage their feelings. “It’s those negative ones—the anger, jealousy, fear, sadness, irritability, worry—that create discomfort in us as parents and cause us to dismiss, placate, squelch, minimize and even yell these provocative feelings away. But if we want to give our children a foundation of good emotional health, we must teach them to cope and deal with the icky feelings, and we must be able to tolerate their discomfort and not run in to save them by dismissing these uneasy emotions in order to make it all better.”

She helps parents create a climate of respect, understanding and boundaries for connecting to their children in an authentic way.

To register, call 516.214.4778 or email harriet@rebuildlifenow.com

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or many disorders, the best treatment isn’t a single strategy, but a multidisciplinary approach leading to long-lasting therapeutic success. A perfect example is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), says Anamaria Pontes, nutritionist for Holistic Dentists in Tribeca.

“If you have mild sleep apnea, some changes in daily activities or habits might be all the treatment you need,” says Pontes, who provides counseling on proper “sleep hygiene,” such as foods that disrupt or promote a good night’s sleep, and on weight management. “About 70 percent of patients with OSA are obese. Reducing weight gets rid of fat that blocks the windpipe. Scientific evidence shows that a sustained weight loss of just 5 percent was enough to prevent the disease from worsening and even cure it in a long-term follow-up.”

OSA sufferers usually sleep with their mouths open, causing dry mouth and a sore throat. Because saliva helps protect the teeth, these people are more vulnerable to tooth decay, Pontes says. “We bring that to our patients’ attention. Our director, Dr. Lewis Gross, presents an integrative approach to OSA, which includes nutrition counseling and removable oral appliances as an alternative to CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) and surgery.”

For more information, contact Holistic Dentists at 212-732-2200.

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ntuitive Sue Frederick will lead the workshop Your Divine Lens: Secrets to Finding Purpose and Living in Alignment with Your Soul, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., November 13, at New Sue Frederick York Open Center.

Frederick believes we are all highly evolved souls, but life’s challenges often cause us to forget our true purpose and lose touch with our “inner guidance.” In this workshop, she will help participants realign with their souls’ mission and realize that challenges can empower us and pain can fuel our greatest progress.

“We will learn how to quiet the mind with mantras so we can hear our inner wisdom, reframe our perspective so we can use our personal traumas as fuel to reach our full potential, and decipher our life’s purpose and potential by using a variety of esoteric divinatory tools, such as astrology, soul path numbers and nine-year reinvention cycles,” she says.

Frederick works with clients to help them lift their sorrow and move forward with courage. She is the author of Your Divine Lens; I See Your Dream Job; I See Your Soul Mate; and Bridges to Heaven: True Stories of Loved Ones on the Other Side.

For more information, visit SueFrederick.com.

Awaken Wellness Fair in Tarrytown

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he Awaken Wellness Fair, the area’s longest-running body-mindspirit-green expo, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., October 30, in the grand ballroom of the DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown.

Over the past 14 years, this wellness-focused, educational and experiential fair has grown from one annual event to multiple events in locations throughout the tri-state area, including NYC, Brooklyn, Tarrytown and Fort Lee, New Jersey.

The fair will feature more than 100 exhibitors offering a wide variety of products and services to support a healthy lifestyle, from essential oils and Ayurveda to nutritional supplements and organic cleaning products to crystals and jewelry.

In addition to a dozen other speakers, the fair will include keynotes from spiritual mediums Roland Comtois, author of And Then There Was Heaven, and Hollister Rand, author of I’m Not Dead, I’m Different.

Intuitive readers and holistic healers are a major part of the show. Among the various intuitive services offered (for entertainment purposes only) will be tarot readings, mediumship, angel readings, numerology and pet readings. Healers will offer reiki, reflexology and energy healing. Discounted appointments can be made with readers and healers at PPCGroup.FullSlate.com.

For more information, including vendor opportunities, visit AwakenFairs.com.

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Focus on Breast Health Awareness in October

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hile October is widely advertised as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Patricia BowdenLuccardi, a certified thermographic technician, has a different take on that theme: “Let’s focus instead on breast health awareness and ways to prevent cancer at a cellular level and minimize our exposure to estrogenic toxins.”

She says the greatest threat to breast health is exposure to a group of toxins called endocrine disruptors. “These are chemicals and byproducts that mimic the effects of estrogen in the body or cause estrogen to act in a way that isn’t normal. Using these products in combination with hundreds of other chemicals that we come in contact with on a daily basis may increase the risk of several cancers.” Endocrine disruptors can be found in household and personal-care products, certain foods and plastics, the air and water, and “healthcare exposures” like ionizing radiation, she says.

She recommends several steps to help lower the risk of breast cancer: adopting a healthy lifestyle, minimizing exposure to toxins, increasing iodine intake and taking advantage of earlydetection technologies to monitor breast health on a cellular level. “Thermography is the earliest, most effective way to detect early breast cancer without radiation,” she says. $50 off Thermography in the month of October. Bowden-Luccardi’s medical thermography practice is located at 250 Park Ave., 7th Fl. For more information, call 518-929-7579 or visit BTIScan.com.

Empowered Light Holistic Expo in Oaks, PA

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he Empowered Light Holistic Expo, a new event “to help bring a sense of empowerment to each of us,” according to founder Sue Greenwald, will be held from 5 to 9 p.m., October 28; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., October 29; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., October 30, at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, Hall D, in Oaks, Pennsylvania. The event’s focus is on healthier lifestyles, including nutrition and food, stress reduction and self-care, alternative healing therapies and spiritual experiences. Speakers, authors, practitioners and psychic mediums will make presentations and conduct workshops, classes and sessions on alternative healing modalities, health and wellness topics and spiritual practices; healthy foods and raffle prizes also will be available, as will yoga classes and meditations. Many Expo activities and products are free while others require a small fee.

“Our rushed society causes the average person to feel stressed, leading to illness, unhappiness and a deep feeling of powerlessness,” says Greenwald, who also founded Thrive Yoga & Wellness Center, in Malvern, Pennsylvania, adding that event attendees should depart feeling inspired, with a greater sense of purpose as they come to experience “deeper relaxation, healing and a sense of peace.”

Location: Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Ave, Oaks, PA For attendance, vendor, sponsor, advertiser or volunteer information, email EmpoweredLightExpo@gmail.com or visit EmpoweredLight.com.

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um Shanti Bookshop will present the Halloween Psychic Fair from 12 - 4 p.m., October 29, at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 Fourth Avenue (between 12th and 13th Streets). Visitors can enter the fair for a $5 donation, and paid readings and services will be available from intuitives, spiritual mediums and alternative wellness practitioners.

The event will feature lectures on yoga and meditation; paid healing services such as reiki and chair massage; and a wide variety of paid intuitive and spiritual services such as psychic, tarot and Akashic Record readings, channeling, numerology, chakra/pendulum readings and dream interpretation. Vendors will be on hand selling henna tattoos and handcrafted jewelry, soaps, bath salts and other products.

For more information, call Aum Shanti Bookshop (226 E. 14th St.) at 212-260-2866 or visit AumShantiBookshop.com.

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Diabetics Improve Using Sesame and Rice Bran Oils

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esearch published in the American Journal of Medicine found that treating people with a blend of cold-pressed sesame oil and rice bran oil significantly normalizes blood glucose levels. Testing involved 400 men and women for eight weeks, including 300 that had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, by replacing cooking oils in their diet with a blend of sesame and rice bran oil.

The researchers, from Japan’s Fukuoka University and India’s Council of Medical Research, divided the patients into four groups. For two months, 100 healthy people and 100 Type 2 diabetes patients replaced their cooking oils with the sesame/rice bran blend, another 100 Type 2 diabetes patients were treated with five milligrams per day of the diabetes drug glibenclamide (glynase in the U.S.) and the remaining 100 Type 2 diabetes patients were treated with a combination of the same dosage of glibenclamide, along with consuming the sesame/ rice bran oil blend over the two-month period.

After four weeks and eight weeks, the researchers found the diabetes patients that consumed the oil blend had significant reductions in fasting and post-meal blood glucose levels. They also had lower levels of glycated hemoglobin, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (“bad” cholesterol) and improved high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (“good” cholesterol). Those treated with the diabetes drug without consuming the oil blend showed none of the same improvements.

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Vitamin D3 Boosts Gut Health

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esearch from Austria’s University of Graz has found that high-dose vitamin D3 significantly alters the gut’s microbiome for the better. The researchers tested 16 healthy people for eight weeks, giving them a dose of 980 international units (IU) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight. At this rate, a 150-pound person would take more than 66,000 IU per day.

The scientists took samples from the stomach, small intestines, colon and stool before and after the testing period. They also tested for bacteria species using gene sequencing and measured T-cell counts.

Afterward, the subjects showed reductions in disease-producing bacteria and increased diversity among their gut probiotics.

The research also discovered that the high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation increased immunity in the gut. “Vitamin D3 modulates the gut microbiome of the upper gastrointestinal tract, which might explain its positive influence on gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease or bacterial infections,” the researchers explain.

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esearch published in Psychological Science, the journal of the Association for Psychological Science, has found that positive moods can be transferred from one person to another via human sweat. The scientists from Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, tested 12 young men and 36 young women. The men were given clean shirts and absorbent pads were attached to their armpits while they watched video clips that induced several emotional states—fear, happiness or neutral. The researchers then stored the absorbent pads for each emotion into sealed jars.

The 36 women were then tested with each of the absorbent pads randomly, with five-minute breaks in-between. They placed their chins on a special rest that held the absorbent pad underneath. The research was double-blind, so neither the researchers nor subjects knew which pads they were exposed to. During each exposure, the women’s facial expressions were recorded. The researchers determined that the women had facial expressions reflecting the emotion induced by the videos the men watched, based on the activity of the women’s facial muscles.

Senior researcher Gün Semin, of Utrecht University, says, “Our study shows that being exposed to sweat produced under happiness induces a simulacrum of happiness in receivers and induces a contagion of the emotional state. This suggests that somebody that’s happy will infuse others in their vicinity with happiness. In a way, happiness sweat is somewhat like smiling—it’s infectious.”

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Biodegradable Bottle Algae-Based Jars Quickly Decompose

Older incandescent light bulbs have been phased out in many countries because they waste huge amounts of energy as heat, but scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported in Nature Nanotechnology that they are finding a way to recycle the waste energy and focus it back onto the filament, where it’s re-emitted as visible light. Their innovative structure is made from thin, stacked layers of a type of light-controlling crystal that allows visible wavelengths to pass through while reflecting infrared back to the filament as if striking a mirror.

Traditional bulbs are banned in the European Union and Canada, and their manufacture and importation are being phased out in the U.S. They’ve been replaced by more expensive compact fluorescent (CFL) and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs, which are significantly more efficient. In theory, the crystal structures could boost the efficiency of incandescent bulbs to 40 percent, making them three times more efficient than the best available LED and CFL bulbs.

Organic Rally

October is Non-GMO Month The Non GMO Project is sponsoring National Non-GMO Month in October. Observed since 2010, the program seeks to increase education and awareness about the growing presence of unlabeled genetically modified (GM/GMO) food products and ingredients.

People and organizations across North America are discovering the risks GMOs pose to our health, families and environment. Non-GMO Month provides a powerful opportunity to coordinate voices and actions around the country as brands, retailers and individuals stand up for the right to know what’s in our food and to choose to avoid GMOs. Protecting consumer choice and a non-GMO food supply requires a multifaceted approach with online and boots-on-the-ground teamwork.

The Non GMO Project invites everyone to help create local events and spread the word in communities. Begin at NonGMOMonth.org.

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Ari Jónsson, a 32-year-old student at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, has invented an all-natural water bottle that holds its shape when full and decomposes when empty. He debuted his creation at the DesignMarch 2016 festival in Reykjavík, Iceland. The only two materials needed to create the bottle are agar, a gelatinous substance that comes from red algae, and water.

“I just followed the path in what I was researching, trying to find new ways to use materials,” says Jónsson, who combined the two ingredients, heated the mixture, poured it into a mold, and then quickly cooled it. The H2O binds and thickens the agar when cooled, retaining the shape of the water bottle mold, explains Jónsson. When the finished bottle is empty, “It will rot like other foods.”

The bottles can sustainably decompose in soil, although Jónsson has yet to determine exactly how long that process will take. A plastic water bottle takes more than 1,000 years to biodegrade, and in the U.S., more than 2 million tons of the containers are languishing in landfills.

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Cause and Effect

Activists Will ‘Sue’ Monsanto in Mock Trial Monsanto, the U.S.-based, multinational producer of agricultural products infamous for its controversial Roundup herbicide, will be “sued” for crimes against humanity in the independent International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on World Food Day, October 16.

Plaintiffs include the Organic Consumers Association, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Navdanya, Regeneration International, and Millions Against Monsanto, along with dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups.

The court, developed in 2011, will use the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to assess damages for Monsanto’s acts against humans and the environment.

The court will also attempt to reform international criminal law to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable criminal offense. It has determined that prosecuting ecocide as a criminal offense is the only way to guarantee the rights of humans to a healthy environment and the right of nature to be protected.

Constructive Campaigning

Meditate the Vote Supports Political Sanity The Meditate the Vote – the Real Conversation segment is the brainchild of the globally broadcast America Meditating radio show (BlogTalkRadio. com/AmericaMeditating), which features prominent thought leaders sharing methods for personal development.

In the midst of the 2016 election campaign, they ask people to step up the quality of citizen debate using Meditate the Vote questions to stimulate more intelligent and inclusive discussions via a variety of social media, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other outlets leading up to national election day on November 8.

Meditate the Vote does not endorse any candidate or political party. It’s a movement to socially engage all ages in a higher-quality and more cohesive way of working together. The Internet will be used to spread the word, with participants making videos in which they say, “I meditate the vote,” and why they do so, sharing feedback from their conversations.

A Pause for Peace app is available to access communications, meditations, videos and the America Meditating radio show. The program is also available on Blog Talk Radio, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Aha Radio and the PlayerFM app.

Take action at AmericaMeditating.org/events.meditatethevote.

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have had issues with acne since I was a teenager. Back then, I found a way to cope with the small pimples I used to have. That was until 2013, when the real battle began. I traveled quite a lot that year, and somewhere along the way, my acne got out of control.

I didn’t understand how to take care of my cystic acne, as my previous skin regimen was not doing it for me anymore. I went to countless professionals—aestheticians, doctors, dermatologists—and none of them could tell me exactly what was wrong with me. Regardless of that, I was prescribed harsh medications that I felt would eventually harm my overall health. Needless to say, I didn’t want to take them.

But I was desperate. I felt ugly and was ashamed to go out. People on the street would come up to me and give me “advice” to wash my face more often—as if I weren’t already obsessing about trying to take care of my skin! By now I was also waking up in the middle of the night because the pillow would painfully aggravate my skin. I was helpless and didn’t know what to do.

One lucky day, I was going through a Natural Awakenings magazine and found out about Dr. Mariana Boneva. I decided to hear her opinion, since she seemed to help people holistically. She was my last hope.

Dr. Boneva was the very first person who promised to help me cure my acne naturally. She understood my concerns—and, more important, she believed in me.

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New Technique Straightens Smiles in Six Months

By Peter Silver, DDS

Over the past few years, there have been tremendous advances in the science of moving teeth.

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Now we have acquired another technique that uses clear brackets and wires in the front of the mouth to correct crowded or spaced-out teeth in a very short time frame, usually six months. Since these are bonded on for the duration of the treatment, there are no longer issues with remembering to wear them or length of treatment. Another advantage is that the process is less expensive than the clear aligners. So we are talking faster, more efficient and cheaper!

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We offer free consultations for anyone who wants to know if he or she is a candidate for this procedure. Also, at the completion of each case, we celebrate our patient’s beautiful new smile by making him or her free custom whitening trays and gel.

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In many cases, no drilling or injections are needed, because Dr. Silver uses an air/powder spray to remove the decay that doesn’t cause any discomfort. For more extensive restorations, pain free injections are given and you are profoundly numb so that nothing will bother you. For those with any dental anxiety, we have nitrous oxide (laughing gas) which helps you relax in our extra soft chairs. We also offer Relaxation Dentistry (Sleep Dentistry) for those patients who want a completely alternative visit.

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calls the “right thing to do” fed more than 41,000 people that day.

Named one of Toyota’s 2016 Mothers of Invention, Ahmad uses the company’s $50,000 grant to boost Copia’s services throughout the U.S. Recently, German and Austrian government officials expressed interest in expanding the service to help feed Syrian refugees in their countries.

Friends Margot McNeeley and Janet Boscarino, in Memphis, Tennessee, looked around for local problems they could fix and took action starting in 2008.

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CHANGE MAKERS INSPIRED TO ACT

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urs is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts, or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good,” says Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., a world-renowned author and Jungian psychoanalyst specializing in post-trauma counsel.

Thousands of people each day choose to see a world radiating with hope and light, despite ever-present conflict and strife. Their talents and gifts, alliances and collaborations are inspiring a new story that ripples outward into our communities and beyond.

In The Ten Gifts: Find the Personal Peace You’ve Always Wanted Through the Ten Gifts You’ve Always Had, author Robin L. Silverman affirms that everyone can reach within, even in the worst of circumstances, for treasures that can be used to improve the lives of others.

She concludes, “We are not meant to use our gifts simply to survive, but to

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satisfy our souls and inspire others to do the same.”

Meeting Basic Needs Komal Ahmad was unaware that her single act of kindness in simply offering to share her lunch with a homeless veteran in 2011 while she was attending the UniKomal Ahmad versity of California, Berkeley, would lead to a multiplying mission to feed America’s hungry. His heartfelt expression of gratitude for his first meal in three days sparked an epiphany: Her school was regularly throwing away thousands of pounds of food while neighbors were going hungry.

Today, Ahmad is the founder and CEO of Copia, an app that matches nonprofits serving in-need veterans, children, women and others with companies that have leftover gourmet food. Following the 2016 Super Bowl, she used Copia’s technology to organize food pickups throughout the San Francisco Bay area. What she na-newyorkcity.com

didn’t want food to go to waste and created the Project Green Fork certification program after learning that 95 percent of restaurant waste can be diverted from landfills. Her nonprofit helps resJanet Boscarino taurants to conserve water and energy, develop recycling and composting systems and switch to biodegradable containers and environmentally friendly cleaning operations.

Boscarino’s experience in business development and sales, combined with her disdain for litter, led her to found the nonprofit Clean Memphis, which began in 2008 with volunteer crews picking up litter. In recent years, the initiative’s community-wide strategy has expanded to involve local governments, businesses, neighborhoods, faith-based organizations and 20 local “sustainable schools”.

In 2017, Project Green Fork will become a part of Clean Memphis.

Throughout two decades of educational activism, John G. Heim’s passion for clean water as a human right John G. Heim has not waned.

The founder and leader of The SWFL Clean Water Movement, headquartered in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, persisted even when many business owners considered him a nuisance, driving off tourists.

As infestations of blue-green algae blooms have reached emergency levels, Heim’s ongoing grassroots campaign to increase awareness of water quality issues that’s backed by social media recently brought him to Washington, D.C., to make his case before Congress.

The nonprofit’s 18,000 members have succeeded in bringing national attention to the thick muck now plaguing both Florida coasts. They’re working to alter nutrient-laden discharges from Lake Okeechobee that send agricultural toxins and rain overflow down the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers and out into vital estuaries.

Scott Bunn’s Seneca Treehouse Project, launched in 2010, grew from his building background in a family of entrepreneurs to encompass design/build services and education in Scott Bunn eco-housing and ethical living. Bunn’s original Seneca, South Carolina, homestead and acreage includes apprentice learning programs teaching practical skills in cultivating permaculture, growing food, building structures, working with tools and living in an intentional community.

“For the next six years, our goal is to annually train 50 people that will train 50 more people. Continuing this exponential growth pattern means the potential for 312 million more people living more compatibly and lightly upon the Earth. We’ve already established collaborations with six other cities around the U.S. that can potentially duplicate our efforts,” says Bunn.

Providing Healthcare Options Martie Whittiken, of Plano, Texas, a board-certified clinical nutritionist and host of the Healthy by Nature nationally syndicated radio show, uses her talents to advocate for health freedom in America. Educating listeners for

We are a community of possibilities, not a community of problems.

Community exists for the sake of belonging, and takes its identity from the gifts, generosity and accountability of its citizens. We currently have all the resources required to create an alternative future. ~Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging 19 years, she served as president of the National Nutritional Foods Association during crucial phases of the 1992 to 1994 fight to successfully pass the Dietary Supplement Health Martie Whittiken and Education Act to preserve consumer choices.

The author of The Probiotic Cure also helped found the Texas Health Freedom Coalition to protect citizens’ rights to choose alternative medical treatment in her state. Whittiken says, “My work is a labor of love. I have no interest in becoming famous or well known unless it contributes to getting the job done.”

On a 2006 medical mission to Haiti, Gigi Pomerantz, a licensed nurse practitioner at the Aurora Sinai Medical Center, in Milwaukee, discovered the impact Gigi Pomerantz of a lack of clean water and sanitation as her four-person team treated 1,400 patients for worms, stomach problems, diarrhea and poor appetite. Two years later, she founded Youthaiti, where she serves as executive director.

The nonprofit helps rural Haitians build composting toilets and develop organic gardens using recycled waste as fertilizer. It also provides community hygiene education and reforestation. Everything is aimed at breaking Haiti’s widespread cycle of contamination and disease, and Jacqui Bishop safely convert human waste into agricultural fertilizer that’s increasing crop productivity and the availability of healthy food.

Psychotherapist Jacqui Bishop and Integrative Nutritionist Lisa Feiner, co-founders of Sharp Again Naturally, in White Plains, New York, believe that dementia is reversible, and no case should be considered hopeless Lisa Feiner until all causative factors have been tested and ruled out. Their resolve for eliminating causes of disease rather than managing symptoms is based on University of California, Los Angeles, research studies and sources quoted in a Health Advocates Worldwide documentary.

Project Yoga Richmond, established in 2010, makes yoga accessible to everyone in the city’s metro region. Thirty yoga teachers lead pay-what-you-can studio classes that help fund 22 outreach programs for underserved communities. Healing programs are designed for needs related to autism, recovery, seniors, special students and youths in the court system. “We also provide continuing instructor education, visiting teachers, workshops and other special events that deepen yoga practice in our community,” says co-founder Dana Walters, who serves as the board of directors vice president.

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Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP), Orbert Davis is dedicated to multi-genre projects.

His collaborative research in 2012 while in Cuba on a people-to-people exchange accompanied by fellow musicians and River North Dance Chicago’s Artistic Director Frank Chaves (now retired) proved to be a Orbert Davis multifaceted boon.

It generated the philharmonic’s Havana Blue live performance in 2013 and ignited a weeklong cultural exchange with Cuba’s Universidad Ciudad de las Artes (ISA) during his return trip for the Havana International Jazz Festival in 2014. President Barak Obama’s announcement of the normalization of Cuban/U.S. diplomatic relations opened up the possibility for a continuing CJP/ISA relationship, as well as their 2015 landmark partnered event when 37 ISA students traveled to Chicago to perform Scenes from Life: Cuba at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Davis promises more such events to come.

All of these individuals represent a small percentage of the game-changers actively moving to create an alternative future. Estés observes, “What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts; adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group that will not give up during the first, second or hundredth gale.”

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Chiropractic to the Rescue It Helps IBD, ADHD, PMS and Other Conditions

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hiropractic care corrects spinal alignment abnormalities as a means of treating a wide range of health problems. Addressing skeletal and muscular disorders and relieving pain are just the beginning. Research studies reported in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and the journal of healing science Explore have found chiropractic beneficial in treating connective tissue abnormalities, infant lactose intolerance and even autism.

More than $13 billion is spent annually on chiropractic health services, making it the largest alternative health practice in the U.S. Science supports its usefulness in addressing a wide range of conditions.

Bell’s Palsy. Recovery varies among patients as chiropractors create patientcentric treatment programs designed to improve facial motion and hearing, relieve pain and address other nerverelated issues (Archives of Internal Medicine; Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics).

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). A Canadian survey of chiroprac-

tors has reported success in using spinal manipulation to relieve IBD, colitis and other bowel disorders (Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology).

Cancer. The Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine publishes numerous studies of therapies supporting cancer patients suffering the side effects of conventional treatment. The American Journal of Clinical Oncology reports that chiropractic care rates as one of the leading alternative medical treatments for pain management, among other related benefits. Chiropractic offers economical and effective strategies that may help quality of life, as discussed in Seminars in Oncology Nursing.

High Blood Pressure. While many relevant studies can’t yet generalize results, the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics documents success by chiropractors treating hypertension without the downside of medical drugs that can include the risk of stroke (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

Chronic Sinusitis. Patients with nasal and sinus passages that don’t

drain properly due to physical or nerverelated causes may find relief through chiropractic care. A study cited in the same journal showed that patients experienced relief of all related symptoms after a single adjustment.

Arthritis. A study published in a journal from the the University of Virginia School of Medicine Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies notes that arthritis patients obtaining chiropractic care enjoyed better health and quality of life than those that did not.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS).

In clinical studies, combining manual spinal adjustment with soft tissue therapy has been found to relieve PMS discomfort. In one study, two groups of women were tested, switching off in receiving chiropractic adjustments or a placebo alternative. Each time, the group receiving chiropractic adjustments reported the greatest improvements (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics).

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A study published in Explore suggests that chiropractic care combined with other holistic elements such as appropriate nutrition may provide a more gentle, yet effective approach than conventional psychotropic drugs. It employed chiropractic treatment for boys 9 to 13 years old diagnosed with ADHD. Spinal manipulation with nutritional supplementation was reported to improve hyperactivity, inattentiveness, impulsiveness and behavioral, social and emotional difficulties.

Headaches. Based on recent studies, spinal manipulation has proven effective against migraines and headaches originating from the neck. Manual therapy of the spine, along with neck exercises, promotes improvement in patients with neck-related headaches. Side effects are rare and minor (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics).

Dr. Edward Group is CEO and cofounder of the Global Healing Center, in Houston, TX (GlobalHealingCenter. com). He is a doctor of chiropractic trained in naturopathy, herbals and clinical nutrition; author of The Green Body Cleanse; and a diplomate of the American Board of Functional Medicine.

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CANDIDIASIS The “Great Impersonator” From the Desk of Dr. Howard Robins at The Healing Center in New York City

The Problem They come in each day all with different health complaints and suffering in their own special way. No two are exactly the same. Most have been suffering for years and have tried everything, almost everything, that is, to get well. While many treatments and medicines have offered hope and have helped, at least for a while, they finally fail to stop the neverending discomfort, pain and suffering.

Each doctor has told them that they have this or that condition or disease. They show the entire range of classic symptoms of it, don’t they? Then why didn’t their treatments work? The answer is that the true underlying cause was missed or ignored. Ignored because it wasn’t recognized as the real “felon,” the real reason for their/your problem.

What’s worse is that while most doctors know the condition exists, they “don’t see the forest because there are too many trees in the way”! They either don’t believe or don’t recognize the relationship between your health problems and the yeast overgrowth. The symptoms, conditions and illnesses are so varied that it’s hard to believe that this one cause could be the problem. Believe it or not, this is just a partial list of symptoms that have been associated with this horrible illness (found on numerous anti-candidiasis websites):

Constant tiredness, excessive fatigue and exhaustion Foggy brain/trouble concentrating/cognitive impairment Anxiety/depression Mood swings/irritability Poor memory Learning difficulties The Cause Hyperactivity Since the first time you had even one dose of antibiotics as a child or eaten red Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) meat or chicken that wasn’t organic (most Anger outbursts contain traces or more of various antibiot- Irritability ics), your good, healthy bacteria (probiot- Headaches Intense cravings for sugars, sweets and ics) in your intestine were killed along breads (carbohydrates in general) with the harmful bacteria that needed Abdominal gas and bloating, stomach to be destroyed. This allowed yeast, the pain, digestive problems different types of candida (also known as Acid reflux monilia), to overgrow in your intestinal Headaches/migraines wall as well as bad bacteria to move in and inhabit your intestinal wall, continu- Cravings for alcohol Skin problems (skin infections, eczema, ally secreting toxins into your system. psoriasis, acne, itchy skin) Vaginitis The Results Rectal itching So, what real difference does this make?

Well, after years of research, scientists have Diarrhea/constipation Sinus inflammation discovered that by allowing the yeast(s) to Pre-menstrual syndrome overgrow, your immune system and body becomes weakened. Weakened to different Hormonal problems degrees and in different ways, as each of us Low sex drive Inability to become pregnant is unique, causing a wide variety of sympDizziness toms often leading to a misdiagnosis.

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Persistent cough Muscle weakness Sensitivity to fragrances and/or other chemicals Thrush Athlete’s foot/fungus nails Sore throat Chronic pain in muscles/joint pain Herpes outbreaks Environmental allergies It’s hard to believe that this one problem can cause all these different health issues. Regardless, do you suffer from one or more of these symptoms or know someone who does? Please don’t give up hope (though you may already have), read on.

The Answer Finally, the answer to this persistent health dilemma consists of a necessary combination of three things: temporary dietary change (anti-candida diet); special probiotics (the kind that adhere to the intestinal wall); and most importantly, Intravenous Ozone Therapy. Without all three, failure to get well may be the result as it has with most people.

Dr. Howard Robins, with more than 22 years of clinical experience using medical ozone therapy and over 185,000 treatments performed, is considered by many to be one of the world’s foremost clinical experts on its use. He is also available and willing to answer your questions about it. He can be reached at his Manhattan office by calling 212-581-0101.

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Born to Eat Wild Why Ancestral Diets Boost Health

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n The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan surmised that we’d be healthier if we ate the way our great-grandparents did. It would mean sticking to regularly scheduled meals instead of impulsive snacking, having a meat or protein item comprise only a quarter of our plate, adding fresh vegetables and eliminating junk food.

We must look further back than our immediate ancestors, counters Jo Robinson, a food journalist who surveyed more than 6,000 scientific research studies before writing her bestselling Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health. She has also co-authored several other books, including The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete.

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“Many believe we have dumbed down the nutrition in our food over the past 100 years,” says Robinson, who lives and gardens on Vashon Island, Washington. “Research shows we have been breeding out proteins and minerals and most importantly, antioxidants, for much longer.”

She points out that the hunter-gatherer diet encompassed many wild foods that tasted more bitter, astringent, sour and earthy than the sweet blandness in today’s fruits and vegetables. Wild foods offered a wider variety of phytonutrients, but came at a cost—the time required to hunt and gather enough food for a day, let alone a season.

“Then, 12,000 years ago, we had a better idea—gardening,” says Robinson. “We evolved to 20 varieties in a garden versus 150 in wild plants.” First, farmers chose sweet, starchy, mild-tasting, oil-rich foods such as figs, dates and olives. “We’re hard-wired to choose high-calorie foods because they’re directly connected to the pleasure centers of the brain,” she adds.

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After that, the trend to grow sweeter-tasting, less nutritious plants snowballed. Robinson cites research that found adding one Golden Delicious apple to the daily diet of a small group of overweight men led to higher levels of undesirable low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides due to its high-fructose content and low levels of antioxidants (International Journal of Preventive Medicine).

Wilder Options Even organic farming methods, in which the soil is naturally enriched, can’t return all those lost nutrients to our food.

Rather than advocate that we return to eating wild foods, Robinson suggests finding wild equivalents. Even those that follow a paleo diet—presumably eaten by early humans and consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables and fruit, excluding dairy, grain products and commercially processed items—could use further refinements in the produce they choose. She recommends specific varieties of fruits and vegetables and explains the benefits of “wild” foods such as meat, eggs and dairy from livestock and poultry fed on grass on her website, EatWild.com.

We can make smarter choices, seeking wilder-type varieties of foods at the grocery store, farmers’ market and garden seed companies. In general, they are more vividly colored, especially from red to purple, and less sweet.

Brightly colored fruits and vegetables indicate a botanical sunscreen the plant produces to protect itself from ultraviolet light and other external threats, notes Robinson; it’s an indication of a higher antioxidant activity.

“Find as many purple foods as possible because they have anthocyanins, known to fight cancer and inflammation,” suggests Robinson. “The original carrot from Afghanistan is purple.

It’s only been orange for the past 400 years when it was bred to salute the royal House of Orange, in the Netherlands.”

According to Robinson, we can also prepare our foods in ways that maximize their phytonutrient content. Eat fresh-picked asparagus and broccoli immediately or their natural sugars and antioxidants disappear. Let chopped or pressed garlic sit for 10 minutes before using so its pungent allicin—the healthy compound that benefits our health—will increase. Tear fresh lettuce the day before eating and keep it fresh in a plastic bag with poked holes, to allow the stillliving lettuce to rally its healthy compounds as if its battered leaves were repelling an insect attack.

This emerging science of polyphenols, the technical term for phytonutrients in our food, will be explosive, predicts this pioneering research-based author. “There’s a new study just about every month,” she finds. It can all lead toward breeding and growing more nutritious foods that are more readily accessible to everyone.

Judith Fertig writes cookbooks and foodie fiction from Overland Park, KS (JudithFertig.com). natural awakenings

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Planet-Friendly and Profitable The Rise of Ecopreneurs

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hether it’s a sideline or full time, flourishing small businesses stimulate the economy. The U.S. Small Business Association found that between 2009 and 2013, companies with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 60 percent of net new jobs. Technology allows new commercial ventures to be launched from home, yielding huge savings in startup costs. Owners have found ways to fulfill needs by leveraging their past job experiences and personal interests.

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When the economy faltered in 2008, Dave Marciniak, owner and lead designer at Revolutionary Gardens, in Culpeper, Virginia, offered eco-friendly services. “I focus on a few key points and design to make the outdoors a place where people want to be,” he says.

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distribute come from local farmers,” he explains. Basil, parsley, dill, lettuce and other herbs and greens are available for all five boroughs; potted plants arrive fresh weekly via subscription.

In addition to cleaning homes, Debbie Sardone, owner of Speed Cleaning, in Lewisville, Texas, saw an opportunity to manufacture her own green cleaning products. They’re part of a full-line online catalog.

Ryan Riley and his wife, Ashley Spitz, of Los Angeles, own and operate Biz Bagz, dog waste bags made in America from bio-based resins and recycled plastics. He notes the genesis of their idea: “Landfills are anaerobic, so biodegradable bags don’t get the oxygen required to break down. Compostable bags are available, but few places provide composting services.

We offer a cleaner alternative.”

Another pet-inspired idea was spawned when Kevin Li, of Manhattan, New York, left his puppy home alone for the first time. He invented an app-operated remote control ball with a camera called PlayDate (Tinyurl.com/RemoteBallApp). na-newyorkcity.com

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People- and planet-friendly personal care products address other ongoing customer needs. Nitya Gulati, founder of Sugarloom Cosmetics, in Ashburn, Virginia, specializes in Americanmade, vegan, cruelty- and toxin-free nail polish. She advises, “Look for ‘five-free’ on the label, which means no formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, toluene and allergens camphor and formaldehyde resin. Watch out for guanine, made from fish scales, found in glittery polishes. Oleic acid, a thickener, is animal fat. Vibrant reds may contain carmine, made from boiled, crushed beetles.” She warns that products tested by a third party can obscure animal testing during product development.

Amelia Swaggert and Elizabeth Ripps, co-founders of California Scrub Company, in Los Angeles, upcycle coffee grounds into a natural facial scrub. They’ve eliminated plastic at every step of production from sourcing to packaging. They’re also helping to keep the world’s oceans from becoming plastic soup by supporting the Beat the Microbead campaign. (BeatTheMicrobead.org/en).

Maintaining a professional look while living green can be a challenge.

OneSavvyMother.com found a stylish, eco-friendly, lightweight and durable tote bag designed by Natalie Therése.

The vegan cork tote is made in Boxford, Massachusetts. Shavings from the bark of the cork oak tree grown in Portugal are transformed into ultrathin sheets to produce cork fabric; the certified organic cotton lining is produced in Korea and China in certified Global Organic Textile Standard and fair trade facilities.

Out and About Mya Zeronis saw a need for healthy food and stepped out of her comfort zone to fulfill it through her extra VEGANza Pgh restaurant and its catering arm, Lean Chef en Route, recognized by Sustainable Pittsburgh.

“We source locally, compost produce scraps, serve meat- and dairy-free menu options, practice food waste management with root-to-stem preparation and maintain energy conservation,” she

says. Customers are encouraged to bike to the restaurant; there’s even a bicycle air pump and flat tire repair kit on the premises if emergencies arise.

Shared bikes are a welcome addition at colleges for budget-minded and time-strapped students. Rented by the hour or day, they’re a convenient, healthy and non-polluting way to get around campus. New York University at Buffalo students can remotely locate, rent and unlock GPS-enabled bikes.

At Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Purple Bike Coalition provides free use of bikes and a staffed repair station; a cargo bike helps transport larger objects.

Entrepreneurs are creative by nature; seeing a need and asking, “What if?” Eco-friendly, green-minded entrepreneurs take ideas a step farther, working to ensure the health of consumers and the planet. They succeed as they serve and inspire us all.

Connect with the freelance writer via AveryMack@mindspring.com.

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that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. ~Margaret Mead

Band-Aid vs.

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n the journey of life, each one of us has choices to make, and every choice has consequences. Luckily, no matter what we choose, there are always lessons we can learn from, whether the choice we make is useful in the moment or not. In other words, whether we make the “right” choice or the “wrong” one, we will learn about ourselves and about the laws of life.

How is this related to Alexander Technique? The majority of people tend to choose exercise-based modalities, such as yoga or Pilates, to help them improve the quality of their lives. While there are benefits to these exercises, they may be considered the equivalent of the Band-Aid solution to problems and injuries. A Band-Aid is useful and important; however, it is temporary and only covers the surface of the problem.

On the other hand, there is the Alexander Technique.

Learning Alexander Technique helps by directly addressing the core issue of how we are supposed to function based on our structure—that is, how we are built. For example, if someone is suffering from neck pain caused by the way she tilts her heads over her mobile phone, she has the choice of either doing light exercises to ease the pain or studying the best way to tilt her head based on the knowledge of where the major joints of the neck are. Better yet, she has a third choice: to do both.

She can learn to move efficiently, the

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way we’re supposed to, and also exercise in order to ease the pain caused by the misuse, keeping in mind the simple fact that we do need to change our bad habits that cause us pain and or injury.

Alexander Technique takes care of the problems that are caused by misuse—intelligently, clearly and directly.

Choose it and experience for yourself improvements in the quality of your life!

Mona Al-Kazemi, M.Ed., member of American Society for the Alexander Technique, is cofounder of Think AT, a new business in Battery Park City dedicated to teaching Alexander Technique, mainly through individual lessons. The name is inspired by the technique’s focus on thinking, which affects the way we live, including whether we move with patterns of tension or ease. Teachers at Think AT have more than 12 years of training.

For more information, call 646-6325181 or visit Think-AT.com.

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Edward Humes on the High Cost of Transportation Small Consumer Choices Have Big Impacts

by Randy Kambic

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dward Humes investigates the origins and impacts of the expensive and complex process that brings us everyday products and items in his new book Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation. His latest work, which also covers our love affair with cars, is popularizing the eco-conscious term, “transportation footprint”.

Aligned with this, he recommends a move to driverless cars to save lives and fuel.

In an earlier book, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Southern California journalist examined the causes and effects of waste. Solutions are showcased by how institutions and families are consciously reducing their wasteful ways.

What are some everyday impacts of the “door-to-door machine” you write about?

Transportation is embedded in our lives, both in our personal things and our travel. It can take 30,000 miles to get our morning coffee to the kitchen, with another 165,000 miles attached to all the components of the coffee pot, water, energy and packaging—a worldwide mix involving trains, planes, boats and trucks. Unprecedented amounts of transportation are embedded in everything we do and touch, with many hidden costs to our environment, economy and traffic.

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convenient, but it’s also a traffic jam generator. Each click births a new truck trip. What used to be a single truckload of goods delivered efficiently to a store or mall now demands hundreds of single-item deliveries to far-flung homes.

Which transportation footprint surprised you the most in researching Door to Door?

The smartphone is a paradox, in that it has reduced our transportation footprint in some ways because of all the separate devices it has replaced, from navigation in cars to calculators to cameras.

Phones also empower a transportationfree option for online banking and bill paying, eliminating all sorts of trips in the physical world.

On the flip side, making and assembling smartphone components requires a lot of back-and-forth transport between many countries because no one can make the whole “widget”.

With its many raw materials, rare earth minerals and manufactured components, we’re talking about an overall transportation footprint for one phone that’s equivalent to a round trip to the moon; a phone that users will trade in for a newer model in just a few years.

What’s a particularly negative impact of the huge distances involved in today’s movement of goods?

Cargo container ships create immense amounts of pollution. About 6,000 container ships worldwide ship 90 percent na-newyorkcity.com

of consumer goods. Natural Resources Defense Council data show that the smog and particulate emissions from just 160 of these vessels equal that of all of the cars in the world. If the cargo fleet were a country, its carbon emissions would exceed Germany’s, the world’s fourth-largest economy, according to the European Commission. Cargo ship carbon emissions are projected to rise to about 18 percent of the global total in the next 25 years if our appetite for goods continues to grow at current rates.

What are the consequences of the U.S. ranking 16th worldwide in infrastructure quality?

Americans are under the illusion that we pay high taxes to build and maintain roads, bridges and rails. However, as a portion of our gross domestic product, we invest about one-fifth of what China does and the poor results are apparent. We have a $3.6 trillion backlog in needed modernization. This drags down the economy and increases harmful emissions through shipping delays and rush-hour jams, as well as raising road safety concerns.

How can we each lessen our “transportation footprint”?

We have power as individuals, families and communities to make a difference.

Americans walk less than almost any other people on Earth. A Los Angeles study showed that half of its residents’ daily trips are less than three miles, with many under one mile, which is crazy. Using alternative transportation for just 10 percent of those trips would have major positive impacts. Far fewer children walk or bike to school than in the recent past, even as we face a youth obesity crisis. We can also adjust when and how we drive; half the cars on the road during rush hour are not job-related. Driving at other times would ease traffic for everyone and reduce traffic jams, emissions and crashes.

All of this is something we could easily change—and that many other countries have changed—with substantial health, economic and traffic benefits.

Randy Kambic is a freelance editor and writer in Estero, FL, and a regular contributor to Natural Awakenings.

Tree-Mendous Love How Trees Care for Each Other

by Melissa Breyer

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rom learning to communicate to physically caring for each other, the secret lives of trees are wildly deep and complex.

“They can count, learn and remember; nurse sick neighbors; warn each other of danger by sending electrical signals across a fungal network known as the ‘wood wide web’; and keep the ancient stumps of long-felled companions alive for centuries by feeding them a sugar solution through their roots,” reveals Peter Wohlleben, a German forest ranger and author of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They

Feel, How They Communicate— Discoveries from a Secret World, released in September.

Upon seeing two soaring beeches in the forest, Wohlleben observes, “These trees are friends. See how the thick branches point away from each other? That’s so they don’t block their buddy’s light. Sometimes, pairs are so interconnected at the roots that when one tree dies, the other one dies, too.”

Wohlleben is rekindling a re-imagination of trees even as many people consider their role is only to supply us with oxygen and wood. Using a

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mix of scientific research and his own observations from studying forestry and working in the forest since 1987, the man who speaks for the trees does so in decidedly anthropomorphic terms.

“Scientific language removes all the emotion, and people don’t understand it anymore. I use a human language. When I say, ‘Trees suckle their children,’ everyone knows immediately what I mean,” he says.

After years of working for the state forestry administration in RhinelandPalatinate, and then as a forester managing 3,000 acres of woods near Cologne, he began to understand that contemporary practices were not serving the trees or those that depend on them very well. Artificially spacing out trees ensures that trees get more sunlight and grow faster, but naturalists report that trees exist less like individuals and more as communal beings. By working together in networks and sharing resources, they increase their resistance to potentially damaging influences.

After researching alternative approaches, Wohlleben began implementing some revolutionary concepts.

He replaced heavy machinery with horses, stopped using insecticides and let the woods become wilder. The pilot German forest plot went from losing money to posting a profit in two years.

As Dr. Seuss’ tree-loving Lorax says, “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

Melissa Breyer, of Brooklyn, NY, is the editor of Treehugger.com, from which this article was adapted.

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THURS, OCT 6-SUN, OCT 9 Women’s Body Temple: Tantra Yoga, Qigong and Sacred Movement for Sexual Vitality – Women’s sexuality can be a powerful source of energy, selfdiscovery and creativity! Gather life force energy from all around you to support reproductive health, and sustain and nourish your energy to encourage sexual vitality and healing. Learn how to transform old wounds into compassion and rebirth a sexual life that serves your true purpose and highest potential.

Receive support in a community of women of all ages. Prana Regina Barrett, BS, MIA, CYT E-R YT. Eastover Estate and Retreat, 430 East St, Lenox, MA. 866-264-5139, eastoverestateandretreat@gmail.com, Eastover.com/prana-regina-barrett.html, PranaHeals. com or TantraToLove.com.

FRI, OCT 7-SUN, OCT 9 Qi Kayaking and Meditation Beyond Form – Are you ready for a magical weekend in the heart of the Berkshires? Would you like to be dazzled by Mother Nature’s fall foliage display? Greg DiLisio and Johnny Snyder bring their popular and seasoned yoga and kayaking program to Eastover Estate and Retreat, a 600-acre landscape of unspoiled natural beauty with jaw-dropping views of blazing fall colors.

Renew your passion for the outdoors and connect with your own spirit as you come away feeling fully alive again. After a full day of hiking and kayaking, unwind in the whirlpool or with a restorative yoga session.

430 East St, Lenox, MA. 866-264-5139 or Eastover. com/greg-dilisio-kayaking-2.html.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 Reiki Level 2 “Chuden” Class with Rev Jyogan Hakata-Kohler – 3-9pm. Expand your Reiki practice! Become attuned to the first three Reiki Symbols and learn to do distant Reiki Healing. Includes Reiki Kai Manual and Komyo Reiki Kai Level 2 Certification. This class is open to anyone who has taken Reiki 1 with any teacher. Namaste Bookshop’s Namaste Healing Center, 2 W 14th St (between 5th and 6th Aves), New York, NY. 212-645-1014, info@ namastebookshop.com or namastebookshop.com.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 Introductory Meetings on the Ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff – If you would like to learn more about the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff, members from Dr. W.A. Nyland’s group plan a series of 5-6 free, open, introductory meetings. Discussions will focus on how the ideas of Gurdjieff relate to an individual’s spiritual development in today’s complex, turbulent world. The meetings hope to foster open dialogue (all questions welcome) about these ideas and how they relate to your life. Dr. Nyland was a student of Gurdjieff and teacher for over 50 years. Today, his group continues to provide a vital source for the study and practice of work on oneself. Chardavogne Barn, 7 Chardavoyne Rd, Warwick, NY. 845-258-0061, nylandmeetings@gmail.com or Nyland.org.

FI, CT 21-SUN, OCT 23 New Life Expo New York City – The largest holistic expo on the east coast is back with over 100 exhibitors and speakers on alternative medicine, metaphysics, spirituality, network marketing businesses and cutting edge environmenta products. There will be panels on nutrition, strange universe, vibrational medicine and UFOs. Speakers include Richard Dolan, Gail Thackray, Chris Macklin, Sifu Matthew, Jill Dahne, Tammy Adams, Dr. Robert Sorge, and Dr. Jane Goldberg. Hotel Pennsylvania, 33rd St at 7th Ave, New York, NY. For a schedule or to pre-register for discounts, visit NewLifeExpo.com.

FRI, OCT 28-SUN, OCT 30 Empowered Light Holistic Expo – Friday, 5-9pm; Saturday 10-am-6pm, Sunday, 10am-5pm. Enjoy inspiring lectures, meditations, yoga, alternative healing treatments like Reiki, massage and reflexology, as well as angelic and intuitive readings. Sample healthy foods and purchase natural personal and home care products. The focus of this expo is on healthier lifestyles, including food, physical activities, stress reduction and self-care. Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, Hall D, Oaks, PA. Sue Greenwald, 484459-3082, EmpoweredLightExpo@gmail.com or EmpoweredLight.com.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 Halloween Psychic and Wellness Fair – 12pm4pm. Aum Shanti Bookshop presents a day of lectures on yoga and meditation; paid healing services such as reiki and chair massage; and a wide variety of paid intuitive and spiritual services such as psychic, tarot and Akashic Record readings, channeling, numerology, chakra/pendulum readings and dream

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interpretation. Vendors will be on hand selling henna tattoos and handcrafted jewelry, soaps, bath salts and other products. Visitors can enter the fair for a $5 donation, and paid readings and services will be available from intuitives, spiritual mediums and alternative wellness practitioners. Event Location: Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 4th Ave, between 12th and 13th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-260-2866 or AumShantiBookshop.com.

Fall in Love…With Yourself! – 10am-6pm. The most important relationship you will ever have in your life is the relationship with yourself. If you want to discover how to love yourself unconditionally, register for this workshop! Here’s what you will learn: what self-love is; you can only love others if you love yourself first; to know yourself, to understand who you are and to accept yourself; to face your inner critic and be your best friend; and…the tools and techniques to love yourself no matter what.

Judith Costa, Unconditional Love Coach, Master in Psychology and Psychotherapy, Writer and Seminar Leader. Quest Bookshop, 240 E 53rd St, New York, NY. 646-204-4535 or JudithCosta.com.

Hudson Valley, Blue Rock School Information Session– 10am-noon. Blue Rock School, popular with families on the Upper West Side invite 4 & 5 year olds and parents to a free event where children can enjoy a fall harvest-themed morning with Blue Rock School’s kindergarten staff that includes storytelling, crafts, homemade snacks and outdoor play on the school’s beautiful wooded campus. Learn about Blue Rock’s progressive learning environment and take a guided tour of the school’s 4.5 acre campus.

Blue Rock School, 110 Demarest Mill Rd, West Nyack, NY. Beverly Stycos, 535-3353 or admissions@ bluerockschool.org. BlueRockSchool.org.

Certified Life Coach or Executive Coach TrainingIntensive 2-day Coach Certification with CCF, the #1 Life Coach Certification program with over 11,000 graduates worldwide. Begin coaching right away with proven techniques and successful strategies. Sat & Sun. 71 W. 23rd St. 866-455-2155.

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 Awaken Wellness Fair – 10am-5pm. Awaken to your best self! Speakers, healers, vendors, readers.

Over 100 exhibitors, 1,000 guests, exhibitor spaces available. Double Tree Hotel, 455 S Broadway, Tarrytown, NY. AwakenFairs.com.

savethedate FRI, NOV 4-SUN, NOV 6 AHIMSA Yoga and Music Festival – 6pm Friday6pm Sunday. This festival celebrates yoga and music, while promoting traditional and emerging yoga styles at Hunter Mountain. Enjoy 70 classes by over 40 teachers, plus 10 musical acts! 64 Klein Ave, Hunter, NY. For tickets and info, visit AhimsaYogaFestival.com.

SUN, NOV 13 Your Divine Lens: Secrets to Finding Purpose and Living in Alignment with your Soul – 10am-5:30pm. Author and Intuitive Sue Frederick believes we are all highly-evolved souls, but life’s challenges often cause us to forget our true purpose and lose touch with our “inner guidance.” In this workshop, she will help participants realign with their souls’ mission and realize that challenges can empower us and pain can fuel our greatest progress. Frederick works with clients to help them lift their sorrow and move forward. New York Open Center, 22 E 30th St, New York, NY. 212-219-2527 or SueFrederick.com.

TUES, NOV 1, 2016FRI, MARCH 31, 2017 Restoration & Renewal Weekly Relax and Rejuvenate Retreats – Where else can you go to both “get away from it all” and “find it all?” From the peace and solitude of 600 acres to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, from hiking trails and mountain streams, to the world-renowned festivals, from invigorating yoga and qi gong classes to world-class theatre, there is something for everyone, all year ‘round! Spend all or part of your day on the beautiful grounds, with quiet moments in the Japanese and English gardens, enjoy delicious natural cuisine, or choose from a variety of daily movement classes and workshops. Eastover Estate and Retreat, 430 East St, Lenox, MA. 866264-5139 or Eastover.com/restoration-renewal.html.

MON, NOV 14-TUES, NOV 15 Live at Carnegie Hall: A Lifetime Tribute to Bob Proctor – Bob Proctor is the last of the “founding fathers” of the personal development field. He is one of the greatest teachers in human potential development and the foremost teacher of Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth.” Mr. Proctor will be hosting this historic event from the legendary Carnegie Hall.

Some well-known featured speakers include Sandy Gallagher, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Loral Langemeier, Berny Dohrman and Mary Morrissey. This is a tribute and celebration to Bob Proctor’s 55 years as a teacher, mentor and leader in personal development.

Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave (at 33rd St), New York, NY. ModernDayMillionaire.com.

MON, FEB 27-WED, MARCH 1 Reiki I, II, Masters and/or Teachers’ Classes – Here is a rare opportunity to learn Reiki with Lisa Guyman, Reiki Master and Chopra Meditation Instructor here in New York City! Lisa has been leading Reiki workshops for 17 years and meditation for 10 years. In addition to Reiki, don’t miss the chance to learn Primordial Sound Meditation in February. 122 W 26th St, 7th Floor, New York, NY. Reserve your space online at LisaGuyman. com or call 720-683-0444.

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communitydirectory CONSCIOUS CENTERS & SHOPS AUM SHANTI BOOKSHOP

226 E 14th St., New York, NY 10003 212-260-2866 • AumShantiBookshop.com Aum Shanti Bookshop and Crystal Gallery is a community oriented spiritual gallery providing offerings that inspire clarity, guidance, and inspiration on one’s journey. They offers “HighVibration”, “Reiki-Charged” and “Spiritually Energized” items such as a semi-precious gems and tumbled stones, one of a kind rare crystal specimens and clusters, beautifully hand crafted jewelry made with Love and empowering energy.

EDGAR CAYCE CENTER

153 West 27th St., NYC 10001 212-691-7690 • EdgarCayceNYC.org Holistic health and personal growth resource in midtown Manhattan since 1997. This non-profit Center offers: NYC’s largest selection of Cayce remedies & books, with affordable instruction on using them to bring body, mind and spirit back to a natural state of health.

NAMASTE BOOKSHOP & HEALING CENTER

2 W 14th St., New York, NY 10011 212-645-0141 • NamasteBookshop.com Namaste Bookshop and Healing Center offers a unique and large selection of Eastern & Western philosophy books, tarot cards, crystals, pendulums, calendars, wind chimes, incense, greeting cards, yoga accessories, meditation cushions, instructional & music CD’S & DVD’s, salt lamps, and 20 sections of books- including Spanish..

The event space, in the same building above the bookshop, holds classes, workshops, and book signings as well as provides rooms for regular readers and practitioners.

NEW YORK OPEN CENTER

22 E. 30th St., New York, NY 10016 212-219-2527 • OpenCenter.org The Open Center presents programs of exceptional depth and integrity, concentrating in five major areas: Contemplative and Spiritual Traditions; Health and Wellness; Psychology; Society and Ecology; and Creativity and the Arts. Programs and teachers focused on understanding health and mind-body healing, depth psychology, mystical and esoteric traditions, compassionate dying, socially responsible investing, humanity's impact on the earth and renewable energy, untapped sources for creativity in the arts and what we can learn from world cultures.

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REFLECTIONS CENTER FOR CONSCIOUS LIVING

227 E 24th Street, NYC 10010 212-974-2288 • ReflectionsYoga.com Reflections Center for Conscious Living and Yoga is an East Side urban oasis in Murray Hill/Gramercy, near Gramercy Park’s well-walked paths.

We invite you to transcend the tensions of city life and join us for a “just right” yoga class with some of the best and most skilled teachers in NYC, an illuminating talk, or a super cool dance party. Come to Reflections and celebrate all of who you are! We are located steps from the 6 or N/R trains to 23rd St., at 227 E. 24th St. between 2nd & 3rd aves.

GETAWAYS & RETREATS EASTOVER ESTATE AND RETREAT 430 East St, Box 2282, Lenox, MA 01240 866-264-5139 • Eastover.com

Eastover is a 600-Acre sanctuary and residential holistic retreat center in Berkshire Lenox, MA, A dedicated facilitator of Holistic events and retreats. Minutes to Stockbridge and Great Barrington, next to October Mountain with views of Mt. Greylock.

HEALING, FOCUS & WELLNESS CENTER OF PROSPERITY

Tania Chumak Founder, Reiki Master, Theta Healer Practitioner, Practical Psychologist 41 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010 646-883-3307 • CenterOfProsperity.com centerofprosperity@gmail.com Our center is the center of alternative psychology and energy healing. The methods that we are using give people practical, psychological and spiritual guidance in overcoming negativities. We developed programs that help people to fulfill their dream; find a soul-mate; achieve the rhythm of their true weight; balance and harmonize all aspects of their life.

DAVID SCOTT BARTKY

Certified Law Of Attraction Life Coach Certified Consulting Hypnotist 973-444-7301 • LifeCoachDavid.com The Law of Attraction is always responding to you! That’s why it’s vital you understand it so you can attract what you want in all areas of your life. As a Consulting Hypnotist I can help you with losing weight, reducing stress, sleep issues, etc.

Feel free to contact me to discuss if coaching or hypnosis is right for you.

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NYS • HI Licensed Healthcare Practitioner 808-264-5309 • HappyAndHealthyLife.ABMP.com Your Highest Radiant Light-Filled Self is warmly invited to learn High Vibrational Healing Artsʼ Solutions and tools for your “highest path and healing.” I help clear obstacles for all aspects of life by opening stronger groundings to your Light. Letʼs transform life's stressors and trauma through wholistic subconscious healing with compassion. Simple self-empowerment techniques are taught, supporting your BEST BRIGHTEST WELLNESS. Mentoring opportunity to master communing with your innate light guidance for realization, purpose, and clarity. Wishing You A Happy & Healthy Life!

THINK AT

646-632-5181 • Think-AT.com Think AT is a new small Think AT business located in Battery Park city, dedicated to teaching Alexander Technique, mainly through individual lessons. The name is inspired by the focus of Alexander Technique on "thinking," which affects the way we live, including how we move whether with patterns of tension or ease. Teachers at Think AT have expertise with more than 12 years of training.

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INSPIRED’N HEALTHY

Marina Shevel, H.H.C.,AADP Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach InspiredNHealthy.com 917-750-0142 Offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn As a certified integrative nutrition health coach, Marina Shevel specializes in helping people with the thyroid condition. Her practice is based on the philosophy of Bio-Individuality.

She will guide you and support you in finding YOUR healthier alternatives for nutrition that may help you increase your energy, normalize weight, and find your balance. This includes both physical and emotional food.

NATURAL DENTISTRY DR. PETER SILVER

919 2nd Ave, 2nd Flr 212-924-6890 • TheOzoneDentist.com Dr.PeterSilver@gmail.com Located in an easily accessible area by Union Square, Dr. Peter Silver practices Minimally Invasive Ozone Dentistry.

Ozone is used to kill bacteria in cavities and gum disease, while speeding up the healing of your tissue. Dr. Silver also practices Guilt-Free dentistry, where you are never made to feel uncomfortable about the condition of your mouth.

If you are anxious about visiting the dentist, Dr. Silver uses laughing gas and does sedation dentistry as well.

TRIBECA CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC DENTISTS

17 Park Place, NYC 10007 212 732 2200 • Holistic-dentists.com Dr. Lewis Gross has over 31 years’ experience providing holistic dentistry to adults and children with his staff of dental specialists and integrative practitioners. Offering less invasive and more natural solutions for patients with difficult dental issues and those who seek just a good family dentist. Our recently renovated, state-of-the-art facility, offers among other things, Laser Dentistry, metal free implants, non-invasive oral cancer screening, ozone, and alternatives to surgery and root canal.

MASSAGE FINGER LAKES SCHOOL OF MASSAGE

272 N. Bedford Road, Mount Kisco, NY 914-241-7363 • flsm.com Join us for a transformative experience as you develop your intuitive and scientific abilities to heal through therapeutic touch. Classes taught to auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners. Financial aid available for full and part-time programs.

NATURAL BEAUTY MAURICIO HAIR STUDIO

210 Fifth Ave. Suite 1102, New York, NY 10010 212-532-3030 • MauricioHair.com Mauricio is a hair artist who provides a holistic approach to the beauty industry—one that focuses not only on the physical but also on the overall well-being of his clients, through unique services, truly organic products, a tailored experience and Zen-like environment that all work together to support the mind, body and soul. Mauricio’s private hair studio mission is to be the first of its kind: an innovative ecofriendly hair studio and ‘inner beauty salon’ that seeks to unlock every guest’s beauty. Natural color services are available for both pregnant and everyday clients.

NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR DR. SUSAN CUCCHIARA

120 E. 56 street Suite 740, NY, NY 10022 212-652-2240 • www.NaturallySue.com office@naturallysue.com Dr. Susan Cucchiara is a Naturopathic Doctor whom is trained as a primary care physician and is an expert in natural and holistic health. Dr. Cucchiara sees everyone from pediatrics to geriatrics and treats everything from the common cold up and through chronic diseases. She develops a personalized treatment plan to address your health concerns utilizing single homeopathic remedies, biotherapeutic drainage remedies, herbs, supplementation, nutrition and athome remedies.

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE REIKI

OZONE THERAPY DR. HOWARD ROBINS The Healing Center 200 W. 57th St., Suite 807, New York, NY 10019 212-581-0101 • DrHowardRobins@gmail.com If you have a disease or condition that you haven’t been able to get rid of, Ozone Therapy will most likely be the answer, even for people that have suffered for years and have lost all hope. If you are questioning if your condition can be treated, call or email Dr Robins contact information above.

PARENT & RESILIENCY COACH REBUILD LIFE NOW

Harriet Cabelly, LCSW Upper West Side, NY Manhasset, Long Island 516-214-4778 • harriet@rebuildlifenow.com RebuildLifeNow.com

REV. JYOGAN

Reiki Shihan (Master Teacher) 917-740-1933 • PureVowReiki.com Jyogan@PureVowReiki.com Jyogan is one of only a few Reiki Teachers who has studied Traditional Japanese-style Reiki directly in Kyoto, Japan (while he was living in that sacred city where Reiki originated). Jyogan passes this direct connection to Reiki root practices and teachings on to you. Learn and experience Reiki directly from it’s source. Reiki group classes are held monthly on the 2nd Sun., and private classes daily by appointment. Reiki treatments daily by appointment, monthly meditation class every 2nd Thurs. of the month, and monthly Reiki Share on every 4th Sun. of the month (see calendar).

Visit PureVowReiki.com for details.

WOMEN’S WELLNESS

Harriet Cabelly is a social worker and positive psychology coach.

She specializes in working with people in critical life situations and counsels them through their grief and growth. Having worked in the New York City school system for many years, she continues with her love of working with parents to educate and improve the lives of parents and children.

SKIN HEALTH DR. MARIANA BONEVA

Beauty Plus Aesthetics 353 Lexington Ave, Suite 1603, NYC 10016 212-371-6097 • BeautyPlusAesthetics.com Beauty Plus Aesthetics emphasizes the uniqueness of each person. 3 main principles govern their approach: Holistic – a person’s body, mind & emotions. Personalized – treatment plans molded to each client’s lifestyle & body type. Coherent–interrelated advice & treatments. Dr. Mariana Boneva pioneered the most advanced laser treatments 2D and 3D Skin Rejuvenation in Manhattan. Her goal is not only to correct skin’s imperfections, but to create actual improvement in patients’ self image.

BREAST THERMOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL

Patricia Bowden-Luccardi LMT. CNNT. CTT 250 Park Ave. 7th. Flr. 518-929-7579 btiscan.com • medicalthermology.org Thermal imaging is a non-invasive, radiationfree and painless screening test that detects physiological changes in the breast/body that are produced by developing pathology or disease years before a mammogram. A critical difference between thermography and mammography is the ability to detect problems early enough to use preventive measures, rather than detecting disease at a stage where treatment is imminently required.

CONCIERGE HOLISTIC CARE

850 7th Ave, Suite 904 New York, NY, 10019 917- 544-0080 • ConciergeHolisticCare.com As a rose unfolding, we understand that a woman’s health is comprised of many layers and within them lies brilliance. At Concierge Holistic Care, we strive to provide impeccable care for our clients by utilizing an approach that embraces the very best of holistic medicine and that supports the vitality, vibrancy and visibility of every woman with whom we work.

WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT SIERRA BENDER®

PRODUCTS

888-794-3330 • SierraBender.com

HERBASWAY

800-672-7322 • Herbasway.com Founded in 1996, HerbaSway Laboratories is located in Wallingford, CT. Our formulas are based on traditional herbal combinations that have been used for thousands of years. Using only the purest ingredients and wild-crafted herbs, in combination with the latest Western scientific research, HerbaSway’s formulas are synergistically blended to produce optimal balance in your body.

Sierra Bender, a modern day Renaissance woman and leading pioneer in the Women’s Empowerment, leadership movement for over 25 years. She is the founder of the SBEM Core Institute, Sierra Bender Empowerment Method®(SBEM), Boot Camp for Goddesses® internationally renowned retreat, and author of Goddess to the Core. She’s been featured on Oprah Radio, CBS, Univision TV, USA Today, Yoga Journal, Fit Yoga and other media outlets in Australia, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, U.K., Germany and the U.S.

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